ONLY the squirrels that eat Catch-up's strawberries are a abomination but would cease to be so if Catch-up would install some netting to keep the little buggers off the strawberries Hungry critters are what they are and must be second-guessed at all times. They are probably feeding families at the moment.

I do love trees.......but the only way they really prosper is to be managed. An unmanaged woodland eventually becomes dark and tangled and can actually have less biodiversity than a well managed woodland........so in answer to your question......'all my wood is sourced from responsibly managed woodlands, or from fallen pieces of wood'

Red squirrels do some minor damage, but their grey cousins are just vandals. I've seen them ring bark the top 20ft of some beautiful norway maple trees, then bungy jump off ripping off 8-10ft of bark down the trunk.....and not to eat it, but to attract the laydeees. The tree dies back and the timber is stained, rotten and useless. Grey squirrels are just thugs ..............Introduced, environment damaging thugs..........Introduced, environment damaging, TASTY thugs

We only have the red squirrels here, and we're definitely going to get netting to put over the strawberries. It's not like they needed the food. We have a giant black walnut tree in our backyard that they could eat themselves sick on. Granted, there aren't any walnuts yet this year, but they can find plenty of them from last year. Some of the squirrels in our neighborhood are so fat, it's a wonder they can scamper around so quickly. Although they can get tame enough where they don't even bother to run away. Their favorite pastime is teasing the neighborhood dogs. They'll half hang off the lowest branch just watching the dogs work themselves into a frenzy over it. We don't have grey squirrels, but as you get closer to the Canadian borders you'll see black squirrels.

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